Tuesday, March 3, 2015

If I Had Just Started Reading Three Years Ago...

Top Ten Books I Would Classify As My ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS From the Past Three Years

If I were to give you a list of all time favorite books that I've ever read, most of that list would be comprised of books I read more than three years ago, either due to nostalgia (The Giver) or due to their influence on my life over the years (Life of Pi, The Book Thief). So this was fun to think of my more recent favorites. All links go to my reviews. Are any of your favorite books on this list??

Say what you will about the overabundance of wit, but I found this book to be the most emotional book I've read in the past three years. I felt everything: from joy to pain to contentment to heartbreak to hilarity. Plus, this is the only book to have made me cry in the past three years.

5. The Seven Realms Series by Cinda Williams Chima

This series might be my favorite complete series I've read within the past three years. I blew through the whole thing, and loved every minute. Hats off to you, Ms. Chima.

It's rare for me to read a book and think that the protagonist's personality is based on myself. Zoe and I are basically the same person, living in different dimensions. Also, this book started my love affair with Sharon Shinn, so there's that.

The only one I've read on your list is The Fault in our Stars and I wasn't that blown away by it. But, I think that may have been that I was spoiled as I was reading it. The movie invoked more emotion in me than the book did.

LIANE MORIARTY! What Alice Forgot almost made my Top ... 15 (*ahem*). I loved that book, and The Hypnotist's Love Story - they were both so intriguing and definitely not your run of the mill "women's fiction" and certainly not "chick lit". (Not that both of those categories don't have their place on my shelves, mind you;) I'm very interested in both of her other newer ones, and glad to see you found Big Little Lies captivating. I might have to move that one up on my TBR list!

And then there's The Seven Realms series ... how did this just properly come onto my radar last year? I'd seen it around but never add it to my TBR list until then. I still don't have any of the series on my shelves, but I did request the first one from my #OTSPsecretsister so we'll see! Haha.

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